April

Well, we are 8 days into April and I don't have much to write. Jerry is still job hunting. We don't have any plans for Easter this year. And all my craft stuff is packed up, waiting for us to move. Rocky, Macon and Kelly are all doing fine. We've had some rain, some cold nights and some sunshine. My life right now, is boring.

Last Day of March

Well. Hello again. It is the last day of March.. It came in like a Lion and it's leaving like a Lion as well, here in middle Georgia. We had our only snow on the first day of March.. I should post pictures of it, I guess.

Here is our car, right afer we noticed it was snowing. Yes, it's a black car.

This is about 1/2 way throgh our snow fall. the bamboo canes ended up touching the ground before it was all over with. We had some kids stop by, willing to cut them out for us so we could get out if we needed to.. I reassured them we were ok, and had a way out if we had to get out. By the time all the snow melted the canes were standing back up straight and tall.

Another picutre of the canes. This time from the road side. Here you can see that some are just about to touch the roadway.

This is the powerlines that service close to our home. We never lost power. Surprise, surpise. Again. once the snow melted all was back where it belonged.

The last two weekends we have had lots of rain. I think we are almost out of the drought that has been a big problem here in Georgia for the last few years. Like I said, it's raining again and April is coming in with lots of rain as well. I've seen lots of colorful flowers around. Wish I knew the names of all the flowers I've seen.

Jerry is job hunting. The phone has not rung, yet. He's used the computer to look up jobs, gotten numbers from friends and even paid for a trades book to find even more numbers in. Many of the jobs listed state that they wil lstart hiring Electrictions after the first of April.. We were so hoping that we would get that call before the end of today. No such luck.

I have packed up the two bed rooms we've used for storage and most of it is in the space behind the couch. I know we will have to rent a small truck to move everything, cause the car will not be able to handle pulling a trailer and we have Jerry's large toolbox we have to take with us. I'm not sure just how much room we will have left after that box is put on. Then the next thing will be finding a motel in the area of the next job. We will need one that lets us have the pets.. hopefully on the ground floor. A pool would be nice, but it's not number one on the list of got to haves. So far, every place Jerry has mentioned would be fun and good for us to go to.. One in the mountains of Eastern TN. One near the coast of South Carolina. One up in Maryland and one in Centrial Alabama. All places I've not been. One is in an area he's been in. Jerry said he didn't do much looking around when he was there before.

Another rainy day in Georgia

Good Morning from a Rainy Georgia.

It's not a pour out of your boot rain, not even a gentle, soak into the groud rain that is so needed here. It's more a humid almost ready to rain type of day. Macon, just down the road, may not like the rain this week. Only because it's the Cherry Blossom Festival this week. Yes, it lasts a whole week. Free ice cream in one of the parks. Not that we plan on going the 20 miles for an ice cream. Each day something else is also in the park. Oh yeah.. have to add in the sea lion show. It's each day this week as well. There's suppose to be some organ music at one of the local churches I wish I could go hear.
Jerry is job hunting this morning. Letting the computer help him out. He's ordered the Indrustrial Trademan Magazine. A magazine put out by construction company's for people who work in the trades. We've gotten job's through it before, We can take it off the taxes this next year if we decide to go itemized on our forms. That works only if we have a lot of expences. We can take off all travels, tools and such.

Today's plans include finishing up that middle bedroom. I want to get it done. It's dragging me down not getting it finished up yet. Just not get up and go to go do it with. From there, I need to do the stored things in the hallway.
Bathrooms won't take me long to pack up. The bedroom will take about 45 minutes at most. I figure the kitchen will take me almost 2 hours at the rate I'm going, to pack up. One reason the bedroom is taking so long, besides the fact I Keep taking naps is I only work one box at a time, toss everything out of place into a box, bring it to the living room, sort it out into boxes with like things in them... sit at the compute a bit, then repeat. Add to that, we have to make two trips to Macon and that takes at least 1 1/2 hours or more, in the middle of the day. No wonder I'm not getting any thing done. OH, yeah. I got to get the stuff on the front porch ready to go as well.
I asked Jerry what we were going to do for Easter Dinner. He said he just don't know, yet. because we don't know where we will be, yet. I was thinking of coloring up 6 eggs, just cause I can. I would like some potato salad. but since I'm the only one who likes it, may just do without it this year. I figure a small canned ham. fresh bread, a couple of baked potatoes, a salad and maybe some green beans will be our Easter meal this year. Oh yeah. I may open a small can of olives as well as cut up some cheese.

Well durn it

It was fun while it lasted, any ways. We will be on the move again, as soon as a job calls Jerry. He's hoping for Tuscaloosa Alabama.. I'm hoping for Bristol TN. Either way, we have to move and go into motels again.. This time with three pets instead of just one. With the jeep going, and driving a Crown Vic, we will end up renting a U-Haul Truck to move everything with. I've been doing some cleaning out of a couple of the rooms we don't use a lot. The ones I just put things in to store them. I have one done and the other almost done. I've been doing a lot of napping and just don't seem to have any get up and go to get up and get it done. I'm guessing it's the meds I'm on for my Diabetis. It's take two days for Jerry to get his un employment set up and we still don't know for sure if it's done or not cause he's having to file in IL since that is two quarters ago. Remember we moved to GA on my birthday this past year. That quarter isn't in the books yet, either.

I havn't told the land lady yet. Nor have we told the furniture rental place either. We will have to do that soon. We are paid up through the end of the month of both. So we are just waiting to see how soon we have to pack it all up and move first.

So, I have been gathering up all my craft stuff and puting that in one cart. I need to get all my sewing into one or two boxes. The kitchen will be the hardest to pack, this time. There are a couple of things I'm not sure will go with us. We have more and more "stuff" each time we move. To move here I had 27 boxes or items to carry down the stairs into the jeep, then.. I haven't started counting yet,.. just how many boxes I have ready to go. I know of one for the bathroom stuff that I'll have to fill, one for the stuff in the storage in the hallway. the dvd player, and game system are two more boxes, plus the movies and games to go with them. We went through most of our music yesterday. I have most of the cd's in a large carry case, Jerry has a smaller case and we have one for computer cd's, I think. I'll have to look agian and be sure. We need to go to the grocry store for a few small items. We've put it off. I have about 3 or 4 more meals in the freezer here. but need salad stuff to go with it. plenty of canned goods for a couple of weeks. I just ate the last good banana.

I don't know if we are going to try to take the big screen with us, or sell it here, or leave it for the land lady to resell for any bills we leave behind. I'm sure she'll like that (Maybe)